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"Have you been attacked with any particular type of revolver since your return?" we inquired, caustically. "I have been careful not to give offence." "Then why are you so severe upon your fellow-savages, especially the minors of foreign extraction?"
Dealing with such great and fundamental themes, each system of doctrine is an intellectual triumph. Doctrine is an intellectual necessity. Christ is not sporadic, either in history or philosophy. To teach Christ, as the unlettered savage may who has just learned of Christ the Saviour and turns to teach his fellow-savages, might do good or save a soul from death.
It was enough to have seen a display of such brutality; it was too much to stand by while his fellow-savages acclaimed him for his cruelty. She went slowly back into the tent, shaken with what she had seen, and stood in undecided hesitation beside the divan. The helpless feeling that she so often experienced swept over her with renewed force.
'Well, your Majesty, as I suppose you think yourself for the present, I expected something like this to be brought out into the midst of your fellow-savages and sentenced like a felon before my own sister and the woman who, like yourself, owes her life to me! Then he laughed one of his strange, joyless laughs, and went on before I could reply, 'Well, I suppose I mustn't grumble.
When these three men were landed, their fellow-savages showed great eagerness to learn what they had seen in the strange big canoe, as they would probably have termed the English ship.
But his difference from ourselves appeared most in a certain consciousness of novel impressions, which presently escaped from him in the critical tone of his remarks. "Well," we said, with our accustomed subtlety, "how do you find your fellow-savages on returning to them after a three months' absence?"
The five uncouth monsters which we have brought into this august present were once very important chiefs among their fellow-savages, who are a race of beings totally destitute of the common attributes of humanity, and differing in everything from the inhabitants of the moon, inasmuch as they carry their heads upon their shoulders, instead of under their arms have two eyes instead of one are utterly destitute of tails, and of a variety of unseemly complexions, particularly of horrible whiteness, instead of pea-green.
It was perfectly clear that not only they but also their fellow-savages regarded the expedition upon which we were embarking as a quite notable adventure, for they assembled in force to witness our departure, admiration and apprehension in about equal proportions being the dominant expressions upon the countenances of those we left behind us as the boat glided smoothly and rapidly away from the shore.
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